Thursday December 31 2020:
WABONGA bids farewell to 2020 and prepares to see in the new year with a healthy dose of optimism.
Our regular clients have survived the challenges of the past nine months, within the first few weeks of 2021 a magazine that has been dormant since mid 2019 will be back in circulation carrying articles researched and written by us, and our business has book projects – both nonfiction and fiction – in the production pipeline and due for release in the coming year.
WABONGA bids farewell to 2020 and prepares to see in the new year with a healthy dose of optimism.
Our regular clients have survived the challenges of the past nine months, within the first few weeks of 2021 a magazine that has been dormant since mid 2019 will be back in circulation carrying articles researched and written by us, and our business has book projects – both nonfiction and fiction – in the production pipeline and due for release in the coming year.
Friday December 18 2020:
FOR the past nine months, with Australians under various degrees of lockdown, member magazines have been a lifeline for readers starved of opportunities to move around the country. Perhaps never before have communications delivered through the post been so eagerly sought by people craving human contact.
Wabonga has been kept busy writing for, copy-editing and/or proofreading a diverse spread of publications produced by industry organisations and cultural and community groups, ranging from the National Insurance Brokers Association to the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales and the Returned Services League.
FOR the past nine months, with Australians under various degrees of lockdown, member magazines have been a lifeline for readers starved of opportunities to move around the country. Perhaps never before have communications delivered through the post been so eagerly sought by people craving human contact.
Wabonga has been kept busy writing for, copy-editing and/or proofreading a diverse spread of publications produced by industry organisations and cultural and community groups, ranging from the National Insurance Brokers Association to the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales and the Returned Services League.
Tuesday December 1 2020:
INNOVATION underpins the efficiency, productivity and durability of Australia’s horticulture industries.
Within citrus, research projects are exploring topics as diverse as plant breeding, fruit quality enhancement and biosecurity screening, so for the spring 2020 issue of Australian Citrus News we’ve produced four feature articles speaking to the scientific teams at the heart of this work.
Another two are already well under way for summer 2021.
INNOVATION underpins the efficiency, productivity and durability of Australia’s horticulture industries.
Within citrus, research projects are exploring topics as diverse as plant breeding, fruit quality enhancement and biosecurity screening, so for the spring 2020 issue of Australian Citrus News we’ve produced four feature articles speaking to the scientific teams at the heart of this work.
Another two are already well under way for summer 2021.
Friday Novemember 13 2020:
WHEN the Community Newspaper Association of Victoria names GREAT Gisborne Gazette as its 2020 newspaper of the year, the announcement is cause for celebration in the Wabonga office.
We’re proud to provide production backup to the Gazette, which is published monthly to inform and entertain households and businesses in and around Gisborne in regional Victoria.
WHEN the Community Newspaper Association of Victoria names GREAT Gisborne Gazette as its 2020 newspaper of the year, the announcement is cause for celebration in the Wabonga office.
We’re proud to provide production backup to the Gazette, which is published monthly to inform and entertain households and businesses in and around Gisborne in regional Victoria.
Tuesday September 1 2020:
COMBATTING a plant pathogen that threatens grain crops in Bangladesh is the focus of a project funded by the government-backed Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
With the world in coronavirus lockdown, technology comes to the fore to connect us at Wabonga with scientists in Mexico and Bangladesh eager to share news of their multinational team’s progress.
The result? An article detailing achievements to date is delivered to ACIAR’s Partners magazine.
Click here to read it in full.
COMBATTING a plant pathogen that threatens grain crops in Bangladesh is the focus of a project funded by the government-backed Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
With the world in coronavirus lockdown, technology comes to the fore to connect us at Wabonga with scientists in Mexico and Bangladesh eager to share news of their multinational team’s progress.
The result? An article detailing achievements to date is delivered to ACIAR’s Partners magazine.
Click here to read it in full.
Monday August 31 2020:
ON INTERNATIONAL Overdose Awareness Day, August 31, a suite of new content created by Wabonga goes live online.
Dedicated specifically to increasing understanding of drug overdose and its effects on individuals and communities worldwide, IOAD is co-ordinated by Penington Institute in Australia, which in the lead-up called on Wabonga’s services for the second year in a row. This time we produced material for https://lifesavers.global , a website that educates, advises and supports both people who use opioid drugs and those who know them.
ON INTERNATIONAL Overdose Awareness Day, August 31, a suite of new content created by Wabonga goes live online.
Dedicated specifically to increasing understanding of drug overdose and its effects on individuals and communities worldwide, IOAD is co-ordinated by Penington Institute in Australia, which in the lead-up called on Wabonga’s services for the second year in a row. This time we produced material for https://lifesavers.global , a website that educates, advises and supports both people who use opioid drugs and those who know them.
Friday August 7 2020:
THIS week we celebrate the five-year anniversary of having filed our first commissioned book review. At that time it was written for a client base of one: Bendigo Weekly newspaper in regional Victoria.
Over time the service has grown and Wabonga’s reviews are now syndicated to English-language publications in a range of countries.
We continue to produce a new 300-word review every Friday, choosing fiction and nonfiction titles from a mix of established and emerging authors in Australia and internationally. Ebooks as well as traditional hardcopy releases are featured.
Our review packages are tailored to periodicals with limited newsroom resources and/or in geographically isolated areas without ready access to major book publishers.
Click here to go directly to our page of indexed book reviews.
THIS week we celebrate the five-year anniversary of having filed our first commissioned book review. At that time it was written for a client base of one: Bendigo Weekly newspaper in regional Victoria.
Over time the service has grown and Wabonga’s reviews are now syndicated to English-language publications in a range of countries.
We continue to produce a new 300-word review every Friday, choosing fiction and nonfiction titles from a mix of established and emerging authors in Australia and internationally. Ebooks as well as traditional hardcopy releases are featured.
Our review packages are tailored to periodicals with limited newsroom resources and/or in geographically isolated areas without ready access to major book publishers.
Click here to go directly to our page of indexed book reviews.
Wednesday July 1 2020:
PRODUCING a personal memoir is an emotionally confronting experience for a writer, and the process becomes even more challenging when the time comes to entrust the resulting draft to an editor.
For the past three weeks we’ve has been working through the manuscript of a successful businessman turned first-time author who has decided to share his professional and personal life experiences. It’s a process we at Wabonga enjoy immensely: providing supportive, constructive recommendations designed to help shape the strongest possible end product in a way that respects the creator’s individuality.
PRODUCING a personal memoir is an emotionally confronting experience for a writer, and the process becomes even more challenging when the time comes to entrust the resulting draft to an editor.
For the past three weeks we’ve has been working through the manuscript of a successful businessman turned first-time author who has decided to share his professional and personal life experiences. It’s a process we at Wabonga enjoy immensely: providing supportive, constructive recommendations designed to help shape the strongest possible end product in a way that respects the creator’s individuality.
Monday March 23 2020:
CORONAVIRUS makes its mark on Wabonga’s operation, causing publication of Track+Signal magazine to be put on hold. We hope the temporary freeze can be lifted once business activity in Australia and around the world starts to rebound in the second half of the year.
CORONAVIRUS makes its mark on Wabonga’s operation, causing publication of Track+Signal magazine to be put on hold. We hope the temporary freeze can be lifted once business activity in Australia and around the world starts to rebound in the second half of the year.
Tuesday–Thursday March 3–5 2020:
ONE day it’s citrus, the next – literally – it’s rail.
On consecutive days we cover two very different conferences on behalf of industry magazines: Citrus Australia’s 2020 Market Outlook Forum in Melbourne for Australian Citrus News and Light Rail 2020 in Canberra, hosted by the Australasian Railway Association, for our own Track+Signal.
ONE day it’s citrus, the next – literally – it’s rail.
On consecutive days we cover two very different conferences on behalf of industry magazines: Citrus Australia’s 2020 Market Outlook Forum in Melbourne for Australian Citrus News and Light Rail 2020 in Canberra, hosted by the Australasian Railway Association, for our own Track+Signal.
Monday December 16 2019:
DISTANCE need not impede productivity, nor team cohesion.
Thanks to software that allows Wabonga’s set-up in Melbourne to link directly to a dedicated PC in its Mildura office, Elliott Newspaper Group is able to tap into our expert sub-editing services. The innovative arrangement provides fast, reliable, experienced copy-editing and page layout for Sunraysia Daily, with mobile phone and email communication ensuring all members of the virtual newsroom stay connected.
It’s the ideal solution for any regional or rural publisher who’s felt the frustration of trying to attract and then retain capable production journalists in an increasingly mobile marketplace.
DISTANCE need not impede productivity, nor team cohesion.
Thanks to software that allows Wabonga’s set-up in Melbourne to link directly to a dedicated PC in its Mildura office, Elliott Newspaper Group is able to tap into our expert sub-editing services. The innovative arrangement provides fast, reliable, experienced copy-editing and page layout for Sunraysia Daily, with mobile phone and email communication ensuring all members of the virtual newsroom stay connected.
It’s the ideal solution for any regional or rural publisher who’s felt the frustration of trying to attract and then retain capable production journalists in an increasingly mobile marketplace.
Tuesday November 13 2018:
IT'S out: the final instalment of Track+Signal for 2018 has been released. Comprising 116 pages, the November 2018–January 2019 issue of the magazine is on sale and in the mail to readers throughout Australasia and on five other continents.
This completes Track+Signal's 22nd year and its fourth under Wabonga's ownership. Across 2018 Wabonga has produced issues of 124, 108, 116 and 116 pages – 464 in all, making this the biggest year in T+S history – and covered nine major conferences and exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Germany and reported on dozens of workshops, courses, meetings, presentations and other events in support of Australasia's community of rail professionals.
With work on the February–April 2019 issue already under way, the magazine's 23rd year is shaping up to be every bit as productive for the team behind Track+Signal.
IT'S out: the final instalment of Track+Signal for 2018 has been released. Comprising 116 pages, the November 2018–January 2019 issue of the magazine is on sale and in the mail to readers throughout Australasia and on five other continents.
This completes Track+Signal's 22nd year and its fourth under Wabonga's ownership. Across 2018 Wabonga has produced issues of 124, 108, 116 and 116 pages – 464 in all, making this the biggest year in T+S history – and covered nine major conferences and exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Germany and reported on dozens of workshops, courses, meetings, presentations and other events in support of Australasia's community of rail professionals.
With work on the February–April 2019 issue already under way, the magazine's 23rd year is shaping up to be every bit as productive for the team behind Track+Signal.
Friday December 15 2017:
A BUSY schedule in the final few weeks of the working year has included copy-editing and/or proofreading five magazines: the December–March issue of Project Manager for the Australian Institute of Project Management, the December issue of Australian Citrus News for Citrus Australia, the December issue of Australian Fruitgrower for Apple & Pear Australia Limited, the January–February issue of Jetstar Asia for Jetstar Asia Airways and the January–February issue of Look for the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales.
A BUSY schedule in the final few weeks of the working year has included copy-editing and/or proofreading five magazines: the December–March issue of Project Manager for the Australian Institute of Project Management, the December issue of Australian Citrus News for Citrus Australia, the December issue of Australian Fruitgrower for Apple & Pear Australia Limited, the January–February issue of Jetstar Asia for Jetstar Asia Airways and the January–February issue of Look for the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales.
Wednesday December 13 2017:
REVIEWS of 108 English-language books compiled in the past two years have been uploaded to the OUR CONTENT tab on the Wabonga Press website. A new, original 300-word review is produced every week for licensing for print in Australia and overseas.
Bendigo Weekly newspaper (with a circulation of 38,000 copies and a readership of 121,000) was the first publication to make use of this service when it was launched in August 2015.
REVIEWS of 108 English-language books compiled in the past two years have been uploaded to the OUR CONTENT tab on the Wabonga Press website. A new, original 300-word review is produced every week for licensing for print in Australia and overseas.
Bendigo Weekly newspaper (with a circulation of 38,000 copies and a readership of 121,000) was the first publication to make use of this service when it was launched in August 2015.
Tuesday–Thursday November 21–23 2017:
COVERING the annual conference and exhibition of the rail industry in Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian Railway Association's AusRAIL Plus 2017 in Brisbane, yields more than 100 photographs and an in-depth summary of the three days' speaker presentations for the February–April 2018 issue of Track+Signal magazine. Copy-editing is scheduled to begin immediately after Christmas, with layout to run through early January.
COVERING the annual conference and exhibition of the rail industry in Australia and New Zealand, the Australasian Railway Association's AusRAIL Plus 2017 in Brisbane, yields more than 100 photographs and an in-depth summary of the three days' speaker presentations for the February–April 2018 issue of Track+Signal magazine. Copy-editing is scheduled to begin immediately after Christmas, with layout to run through early January.
Tuesday September 26 2017:
THE fourth and final issue of Track+Signal for 2017 has been released, closing out the magazine's 21st year in print – and its biggest to date, with 448 pages published in the 12-month period.
At the suggestion of its commercial partners the magazine has had its schedule adjusted slightly to create a buffer around the rail industry's traditional Christmas–New Year break. Once business has resumed after the holidays, readers will receive their first issue of volume 22 on Tuesday January 30 2018.
THE fourth and final issue of Track+Signal for 2017 has been released, closing out the magazine's 21st year in print – and its biggest to date, with 448 pages published in the 12-month period.
At the suggestion of its commercial partners the magazine has had its schedule adjusted slightly to create a buffer around the rail industry's traditional Christmas–New Year break. Once business has resumed after the holidays, readers will receive their first issue of volume 22 on Tuesday January 30 2018.
Monday July 10 2017:
WABONGA'S pro bono commitment includes supporting community-based for-purpose organisations such as the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in Melbourne by providing occasional graphic design and copy-editing services. The creation of an introductory flyer for the centre has just been finalised.
WABONGA'S pro bono commitment includes supporting community-based for-purpose organisations such as the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in Melbourne by providing occasional graphic design and copy-editing services. The creation of an introductory flyer for the centre has just been finalised.
Wednesday March 23 2017:
PRODUCTION of Citrus Australia's 2016 annual report has culminated with its printing in Mildura, Victoria. The 28-page publication features a summary of the year's citrus industry activities presented in a fresh, colourful format that makes use of infographics and other visual aids to enhance readability and comprehension.
PRODUCTION of Citrus Australia's 2016 annual report has culminated with its printing in Mildura, Victoria. The 28-page publication features a summary of the year's citrus industry activities presented in a fresh, colourful format that makes use of infographics and other visual aids to enhance readability and comprehension.
Monday February 27 2017:
NRM Regions Australia has taken delivery of its new logo and colour palette. The artwork has already been incorporated into a four-page brochure for the organisation also designed by Wabonga Press as a subsequent phase of the project.
NRM Regions Australia has taken delivery of its new logo and colour palette. The artwork has already been incorporated into a four-page brochure for the organisation also designed by Wabonga Press as a subsequent phase of the project.
Sunday January 1 2017:
A NEW website for one of Wabonga Press's core products, Track+Signal magazine, has been unveiled. The site was constructed in the final weeks of 2016 and populated with a blend of new and existing resources.
The launching of the site marked the beginning of the publication's 21st year delivering business information to Australasian's rail industry professionals.
A NEW website for one of Wabonga Press's core products, Track+Signal magazine, has been unveiled. The site was constructed in the final weeks of 2016 and populated with a blend of new and existing resources.
The launching of the site marked the beginning of the publication's 21st year delivering business information to Australasian's rail industry professionals.
Thursday July 23 2015:
A FLYING — literally — single-day visit to an event in Sydney has provided material for a detailed assessment of the challenges and opportunities facing women in Australian rail transport. The resulting 3000-word article will appear in the October-December issue of Track+Signal magazine, accompanied by individual case studies and profiles as part of a special feature examining diversity across the industry.
The inaugural The Business Case for Women in Rail Forum, organised by the Rail Track Association Australia, involved seven speakers discussing the employment of women at all levels of rail.
A FLYING — literally — single-day visit to an event in Sydney has provided material for a detailed assessment of the challenges and opportunities facing women in Australian rail transport. The resulting 3000-word article will appear in the October-December issue of Track+Signal magazine, accompanied by individual case studies and profiles as part of a special feature examining diversity across the industry.
The inaugural The Business Case for Women in Rail Forum, organised by the Rail Track Association Australia, involved seven speakers discussing the employment of women at all levels of rail.
Tuesday July 21 2015:
PROOFREADING of a national business magazine has ended with the return of the second and final batch of PDF page proofs to the publisher. The August–September issue was proofread in sections over 10 days and marked up electronically in Acrobat for correction by the company's inhouse layout artist.
PROOFREADING of a national business magazine has ended with the return of the second and final batch of PDF page proofs to the publisher. The August–September issue was proofread in sections over 10 days and marked up electronically in Acrobat for correction by the company's inhouse layout artist.
Saturday-Sunday July 18-19 2015:
TWO days of photography at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show in Bendigo have yielded a portfolio of two dozen images for Bendigo Weekly, the city's highest-circulating newspaper.
Subjects range from prize-winning Merino rams to wool-based arts and crafts, pedigreed working Kelpies and human visitors including Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and his family on a casual outing with fellow Labor MP, Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters.
TWO days of photography at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show in Bendigo have yielded a portfolio of two dozen images for Bendigo Weekly, the city's highest-circulating newspaper.
Subjects range from prize-winning Merino rams to wool-based arts and crafts, pedigreed working Kelpies and human visitors including Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and his family on a casual outing with fellow Labor MP, Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters.
Tuesday July 14 2015:
ISSUE 19 number 3 of Track+Signal magazine is officially on sale — and for the first time it is available not just through retailers throughout Australia but also in New Zealand, thanks to the work of account manager Anthony Cribbes at Integrated Publication Solutions in Melbourne.
ISSUE 19 number 3 of Track+Signal magazine is officially on sale — and for the first time it is available not just through retailers throughout Australia but also in New Zealand, thanks to the work of account manager Anthony Cribbes at Integrated Publication Solutions in Melbourne.
Friday June 19 2015:
WORK has concluded on a special publication celebrating the 25th anniversary of Landcare's establishment in Australia, to be published in the second half of the year by Hardie Grant Media. Over a period of almost two months Wabonga Press has provided copy-editing and writing for the project (the final week of which has been completed from the Faroe Islands and Iceland while involved in a writing exercise with a British shipping company).
WORK has concluded on a special publication celebrating the 25th anniversary of Landcare's establishment in Australia, to be published in the second half of the year by Hardie Grant Media. Over a period of almost two months Wabonga Press has provided copy-editing and writing for the project (the final week of which has been completed from the Faroe Islands and Iceland while involved in a writing exercise with a British shipping company).
riday June 12 2015:
WABONGA Press's second issue of Track+Signal magazine — dated July-September and numbered 19-3 — has been delivered safely to the printer. Due out in the second week of July, it carries features on urban rail (with a striking suburban Melbourne railway station image on the cover), rolling stock and Australia's wartime rail heritage.
Comprising 92 pages, it is a colourful, lively and informative read.
The magazine also carries news of the appointment of long-standing editorial contributor Leon Oberg as associate editor and welcomes Anthony Cribbes as its new account manager for retail distribution at Integrated Publication Solutions, replacing Sam Smith in this key role.
WABONGA Press's second issue of Track+Signal magazine — dated July-September and numbered 19-3 — has been delivered safely to the printer. Due out in the second week of July, it carries features on urban rail (with a striking suburban Melbourne railway station image on the cover), rolling stock and Australia's wartime rail heritage.
Comprising 92 pages, it is a colourful, lively and informative read.
The magazine also carries news of the appointment of long-standing editorial contributor Leon Oberg as associate editor and welcomes Anthony Cribbes as its new account manager for retail distribution at Integrated Publication Solutions, replacing Sam Smith in this key role.
Wednesday June 10 2015:
A PALLET loaded with copies of the current issue of Track+Signal has left Melbourne bound for an international industry conference being held in Perth towards the end of the month. The magazine will be inserted into more than 750 satchels for conference delegates.
A PALLET loaded with copies of the current issue of Track+Signal has left Melbourne bound for an international industry conference being held in Perth towards the end of the month. The magazine will be inserted into more than 750 satchels for conference delegates.
Tuesday April 21 2015:
THE April-June 2015 issue of Track+Signal magazine — the first with Wabonga Press as publisher — has gone on sale through newsagents nationally. Mail-order copies have already been dispatched to subscribers to ensure their arrival in letterboxes coincides with the retail release.
The magazine — issue 19 number 2 overall — has been produced in offices in and around Melbourne, printed by Fairfax Media Print & Logistics at North Richmond, New South Wales, and distributed by Integrated Publication Solutions from its distribution centre at Eastern Creek on the outskirts of Sydney. A guide to retail outlets stocking the magazine is provided through its dedicated IPS product page.
Preparation of the next issue (with special sections examining rolling stock and urban rail within Australasia and around the world) begins immediately, with a view to having it finalised in mid June to go on sale in July.
THE April-June 2015 issue of Track+Signal magazine — the first with Wabonga Press as publisher — has gone on sale through newsagents nationally. Mail-order copies have already been dispatched to subscribers to ensure their arrival in letterboxes coincides with the retail release.
The magazine — issue 19 number 2 overall — has been produced in offices in and around Melbourne, printed by Fairfax Media Print & Logistics at North Richmond, New South Wales, and distributed by Integrated Publication Solutions from its distribution centre at Eastern Creek on the outskirts of Sydney. A guide to retail outlets stocking the magazine is provided through its dedicated IPS product page.
Preparation of the next issue (with special sections examining rolling stock and urban rail within Australasia and around the world) begins immediately, with a view to having it finalised in mid June to go on sale in July.
Friday January 23 2015:
WABONGA Press is celebrating its acquisition of the quarterly transport industry magazine Track+Signal.
A specialist business publication servicing the Australia-New Zealand rail sector, Track & Signal was established in the 1990s by Maurice Reeves and is now entering its 19th year in print. It is the only independently owned and operated rail magazine in Australasia and is compiled and printed entirely in Australia, with editorial and sales offices on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and a production base in outer Melbourne.
The first issue to be published by Wabonga Press will be the magazine's second for the year, due to go on sale in mid April.
WABONGA Press is celebrating its acquisition of the quarterly transport industry magazine Track+Signal.
A specialist business publication servicing the Australia-New Zealand rail sector, Track & Signal was established in the 1990s by Maurice Reeves and is now entering its 19th year in print. It is the only independently owned and operated rail magazine in Australasia and is compiled and printed entirely in Australia, with editorial and sales offices on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and a production base in outer Melbourne.
The first issue to be published by Wabonga Press will be the magazine's second for the year, due to go on sale in mid April.
Friday January 16 2015:
WITH minor amendments complete and two new photographs in place, the updated version of the non-fiction book Me and My Brother has been sent to print.
Orders for copies from the second print-run are being received even before it is delivered to author Angela Cox.
WITH minor amendments complete and two new photographs in place, the updated version of the non-fiction book Me and My Brother has been sent to print.
Orders for copies from the second print-run are being received even before it is delivered to author Angela Cox.
Wednesday December 31 2014:
UPDATING of the non-fiction book Gallipoli Eyewitness: Lieutenant GM Gibson's diaries and photographs was wrapped up in early December, enabling the second edition to be printed in Melbourne and shipped to retailers nationally just in time for Christmas. As the full print-run was completely subscribed within 24 hours of its release, a reprint is scheduled to take place early in 2015. Details (including a list of stockists) are given on the website www.gallipolieyewitness.com. Gallipoli Eyewitness is being sold both online through its publisher, PB Publishing, and through booksellers and newsagents throughout Australia.
A busy month for Wabonga Press culminated with the collection of our final project for 2014, a brand-new novel, from the printer on Christmas Eve. The book — a comic-romance by a first-time author, set in rural Victoria — is now being circulated to reviewers and will be launched in the new year.
UPDATING of the non-fiction book Gallipoli Eyewitness: Lieutenant GM Gibson's diaries and photographs was wrapped up in early December, enabling the second edition to be printed in Melbourne and shipped to retailers nationally just in time for Christmas. As the full print-run was completely subscribed within 24 hours of its release, a reprint is scheduled to take place early in 2015. Details (including a list of stockists) are given on the website www.gallipolieyewitness.com. Gallipoli Eyewitness is being sold both online through its publisher, PB Publishing, and through booksellers and newsagents throughout Australia.
A busy month for Wabonga Press culminated with the collection of our final project for 2014, a brand-new novel, from the printer on Christmas Eve. The book — a comic-romance by a first-time author, set in rural Victoria — is now being circulated to reviewers and will be launched in the new year.
Wednesday December 3 2014:
AT PRESENT Wabonga Press has four book projects at various stages of completion.
Me and My Brother: Stories of Special Siblings in the Macedon Ranges, by Angela Cox, has just been printed in Melbourne and was launched on December 3 in Kyneton, Victoria, to coincide with the United Nations' International Day of People with Disability. It describes, in words and complementary photographs, the experiences of siblings living with physical, intellectual and/or psychiatric disabilities, focusing on the dynamics of 11 families in the Macedon Ranges region northwest of Melbourne.
Wabonga Press edited and designed this 84-page, full-colour book on behalf of its publisher, PB Publishing.
A second book, Gallipoli Eyewitness — Lieutenant GM Gibson's diaries and photographs, is due to be printed in time for Christmas. It is a fully updated second edition featuring a new chapter and additional images taken in Turkey to commemorate the centenary of the original landing by Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. Co-written by Robert Gibson and Steve Kendall, it is based on the personal diaries of Gibson's grandfather, Gerald, who trained in Egypt and fought at Gallipoli.
For Gallipoli Eyewitness Wabonga Press has edited and laid out an extended epilogue section, updated the cover, redesigned the introductory pages and created a map of the Gallipoli Peninsula noting relevant military sites. Wabonga Press also proofread the first edition and constructed a website dedicated to the book: www.gallipolieyewitness.com.
Also under way is the final proofreading and then publishing of a novel by a first-time Australian author and the closing stages of the writing of Wabonga Press principal Rosalea Ryan's own non-fiction book, Stockholm and beyond: the remarkable life story of the world's oldest operational cruise ship (due for release in 2015).
Other commissions include preparing colour separations of a logo in readiness for three-colour screenprinting and designing a display advertising campaign for rollout through hundreds of metropolitan and community newspapers across Australasia.
AT PRESENT Wabonga Press has four book projects at various stages of completion.
Me and My Brother: Stories of Special Siblings in the Macedon Ranges, by Angela Cox, has just been printed in Melbourne and was launched on December 3 in Kyneton, Victoria, to coincide with the United Nations' International Day of People with Disability. It describes, in words and complementary photographs, the experiences of siblings living with physical, intellectual and/or psychiatric disabilities, focusing on the dynamics of 11 families in the Macedon Ranges region northwest of Melbourne.
Wabonga Press edited and designed this 84-page, full-colour book on behalf of its publisher, PB Publishing.
A second book, Gallipoli Eyewitness — Lieutenant GM Gibson's diaries and photographs, is due to be printed in time for Christmas. It is a fully updated second edition featuring a new chapter and additional images taken in Turkey to commemorate the centenary of the original landing by Allied troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. Co-written by Robert Gibson and Steve Kendall, it is based on the personal diaries of Gibson's grandfather, Gerald, who trained in Egypt and fought at Gallipoli.
For Gallipoli Eyewitness Wabonga Press has edited and laid out an extended epilogue section, updated the cover, redesigned the introductory pages and created a map of the Gallipoli Peninsula noting relevant military sites. Wabonga Press also proofread the first edition and constructed a website dedicated to the book: www.gallipolieyewitness.com.
Also under way is the final proofreading and then publishing of a novel by a first-time Australian author and the closing stages of the writing of Wabonga Press principal Rosalea Ryan's own non-fiction book, Stockholm and beyond: the remarkable life story of the world's oldest operational cruise ship (due for release in 2015).
Other commissions include preparing colour separations of a logo in readiness for three-colour screenprinting and designing a display advertising campaign for rollout through hundreds of metropolitan and community newspapers across Australasia.
